Wisdom Quotes Quotes

A shrewd enemy will teach you more than a foolish friend.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Learn from a river; obstacles may force it to change its course, but never its destination.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

One who is not afraid to die lives, and one who is afraid to live dies.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you live in the desert, view the sun not as your enemy, but as your friend. If you live in the wilderness, view nature not as your adversary, but as your companion.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If the sky had no tears, the world would have no rainbows.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A bird will only fall from the sky when it stops believing in its ability to fly, and a fish will only drown in water when it stops believing in its ability to swim.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is difficult for flowers to hide their beauty, that is why they are always picked first.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Bad weather never stopped anyone from reaping a good harvest.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

They know your face, but not your mind.They understand your words, but not your heart.They hear your name, but not your soul.They grasp your past, but not your future.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A flower in a desert still has no reason to envy a thorn in a rainforest.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The past is your teacher. The present is your opportunity. The future is your reward.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

What you think is a seed, what you say is the bud, and what you do is the fruit.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Be careful how you treat those who you perceive to be below you. The universe has a way of favoring the underdog.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Wine had to be grapes first. Diamonds had to be rocks first. Butterflies had to be caterpillars first. Rainbows had to be storms first.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Keep planting new seeds until your mind becomes the earth that gives birth to new worlds.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Sometimes the things that destroy you, become the architectural blueprints which make your mind royal.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Sometimes the only way to gain someones favor is to stop giving them yours.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

If you can dance like raindrops, there will always be sunshine.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Sometimes the only way to gain someone's favor is to stop giving them yours.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

When the doors begin to close, the mind begins to open.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

The deeper magic always comes, in the intense sorcery of your inner silence.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Life can't be rushed. It takes time to develop the wrinkles of wisdom.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

We are filled vessels that gets to choose what we pour back into the world, and what we choose to share defines who we are.

~ Micheline Jean Louis

Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Knowledge gives you the world, intelligence gives you the sky, understanding gives you the stars, but wisdom gives you the universe.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Diamonds are valuable because they are uncommon, sand is worthless because it is common, be yourself and you will be a diamond.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Yesterday says, “Forget me, but learn from me.” Today says, “Embrace me, yet utilize me.”Tomorrow says, “Anticipate me, then prepare for me.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Life is short, death is long, days are narrow, and years are wide.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want little, give little; if you want much, give much; if you want all, give all.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Teach yourself. Help yourself. Improve yourself. Enrich yourself.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn’t be able to make even a single drop of honey.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The ugliest storms paint the loveliest rainbows.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Water drops erode mountains not because of their size, but their persistence.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The tallest trees sometimes grow from the smallest seeds.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

An archer must never blame a target for missing it.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If your greatest wish is to be happy, you are clever; if it is to make others happy, you are virtuous; but if it is to make yourself and others happy, you are wise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo